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	====== Dividing the Indivisible ======		====== Dividing the Indivisible ======
		+	//Initially published on 2013-04-01.//
	===== How to live with a /64, if that's all they gave you? =====		===== How to live with a /64, if that's all they gave you? =====
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	===== Network configuration =====		===== Network configuration =====
-	Let's assume we have the following.	+	Let's assume we have the following on the router.
-	| IPv6 routed subnet from the provider: |  ''2001:db8:abcd:cdef::/64''  |	+	| An IPv6 subnet from the provider: |  ''2001:db8:abcd:cdef::/64''  |
-	| One primary internal interface, where we want SLAAC to function:  |  ''eth0''  |	+	| NIC on the primary internal network, where we want SLAAC to function:  |  ''eth0''  |
-	| Three (or more) secondary internal interfaces, which also \\ need IPv6, but they will have to live without SLAAC:  |  ''eth1'', ''eth2'', ''eth3''  |	+	| NICs on three (or more) secondary internal networks, which also \\ need IPv6, but these will have to live without SLAAC:  |  ''eth1'', ''eth2'', ''eth3''  |
	What we do is...		What we do is...
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	Simple.		Simple.
	* ''eth0: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef::1/64''		* ''eth0: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef::1/64''
-	* ''eth1: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef:ffff:ffff:fff1::1/112''	+	* ''eth1: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef:ffff:ffff:fff1:1/112''
-	* ''eth2: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef:ffff:ffff:fff2::1/112''	+	* ''eth2: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef:ffff:ffff:fff2:1/112''
-	* ''eth3: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef:ffff:ffff:fff3::1/112''	+	* ''eth3: 2001:db8:abcd:cdef:ffff:ffff:fff3:1/112''
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		+	===== On the clients =====
		+	On the GNU/Linux clients connected to the "primary" LAN, the following change may be required for them to start accepting the extra more-specific route:
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		+	<file>echo 108 > /proc/sys/net/ipv6/conf/[INTERFACENAME]/accept_ra_rt_info_max_plen</file>
	===== Address collisions? =====		===== Address collisions? =====
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	- We have ruled out the possibility of collision with a EUI-64 address by using ''ff:ff'' in the middle of our /108 (those will always have ''ff:fe'');		- We have ruled out the possibility of collision with a EUI-64 address by using ''ff:ff'' in the middle of our /108 (those will always have ''ff:fe'');
	- The probability of a "Privacy Extensions" address suddenly having ''ffff:ffff:fff'' in it, is... well, calculate yourself, seems "pretty low" to me.		- The probability of a "Privacy Extensions" address suddenly having ''ffff:ffff:fff'' in it, is... well, calculate yourself, seems "pretty low" to me.
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